User Guide for Campus Pack

Creating an Individual Blog

An individual blog is a course level blog that is owned by one student. You can create a individual blog by adding and configuring a blog content type within any content area in your course or organization (such as Assignments or Course Documents).

There are two types of individual blogs you can create:

1. Individual blog where other people are able to view and comment on the blog entries written by the blog owner.
2. A private individual blog where no one else other than the instructor can access the blog and view the blog owner's posts.

1. Enter a course.
2. Select a content area item, such as Assignments or Course Documents.
3. Click the EDIT/VIEW link
4. On the Create Blog page, enter a name in the Name field.
5. Enter a description in the Description field.
6. Select the Make the blog available option.
7. Depending on whether people other than the blog owner should be able to view the blog, select Group Blog or Private Journal as the Select the blog type option.
8. When selecting members, choose just one member - the owner of the blog.
9. Determine whether students should be able to see instructor's entries and enable or disable this setting accordingly.
10. Consider changing other options to suit your particular usage.
11. Click the OK button to crate the private blog.

Note: If you are creating a private individual blog, it may be more appropriate to create a private journal instead. For more information see the Creating a Private Journal or the Creating Blogs and Journals topics.